“I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals and covered with pools of stagnant water. I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom,” says the Lord who commands armies.

Terror is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.

Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead?

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

Any human being who is permanently dedicated must not be ransomed; such a person must be put to death.

All rebellious sinners will be shattered, those who abandon the Lord will perish.

And people will settle there, and there will no longer be the threat of divine extermination – Jerusalem will dwell in security.

“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone must be utterly destroyed.

Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?

The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.

who delivers your life from the Pit, who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,

The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.

I will destroy you, O Israel! Who is there to help you?

Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: “Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish.”

But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for the Lord. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster.

The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. I will no longer be with you, unless you destroy what has contaminated you.

The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.